Google’s History Timeline

1955 — Eric Emerson Schmidt was born on April 27 in Washington, D.C.

1973 — Lawrence Edward Page was born on March 26 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Sergey Mikhailovich Brin was born on August 21 in Moscow, Russia.

1979 — The Brin family, which included young Sergey, his parents and grandmother, arrived in the United States on October 25.

1995 — Larry Page and Sergey Brin met when Brin guided a tour of San Francisco for prospective new Stanford graduate students.

1996 — Page and Brin collaborated on Page’s Back Rub search engine. The first version of Google is released in August on the Stanford Web. The address: google.stanford.edu. A little over a year later, the search engine left Stanford servers because it took up too much bandwidth.

1997 — Google.com was registered as a domain name. The young inventors tried to sell Google through the venture capital firm of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB). After unsuccessfully pitching the search engine to all likely buyers, they gave up the idea of selling.

1998 — Google was getting more than 10,000 queries a day. Andy Bechtolsheim, a founder of Sun Microsystems, watched the demo for Google and immediately wrote a $ 100,000 check to get the company started. Google became an official corporation on September 7. A few weeks after incorporation, Craig Silverstein became Google’s first employee. PC magazine recognized Google as the search engine of choice and one of the Top 100 Web Sites for 1998.

1999 — After several months of operating out of a rented bedroom and garage, Google opened its first Palo Alto office. Later in the year, the company moved to Bayshore Drive in nearby Mountain View.Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, in partnership with Sequoia Capital, provided Google with additional venture capital of $ 25 million. Brin and Page finally dropped out of the Stanford graduate studies program. Omid Kordestani, the company ’ s twelfth employee and its first nonengineer, joined Google as head of global sales. Kordestani is credited with creating the advertising model that led to Google’s early and continuing financial glory. Charlie Ayers, who once cooked for the Grateful Dead, joined Google as its chef.

Top Search Engine Ranking Factors

PageRank is not the only factor that Google uses to rank search results. Google uses more than 200 “signals”to calculate the rank of a page. According to a survey of SEO experts, the top 10 most important factors include the following:

• Keyword use in title tag
• Anchor text of inbound link
• Global link popularity of site
• Age of site
• Link popularity within the site’s internal link structure
• Topical relevance of inbound links to site
• Link popularity of site in topical community
• Keyword use in body text
• Global link popularity of linking site
• Topical relationship of linking page

The top factors that negatively affect a search engine spider’s ability to crawl a page or harm its rankings are as follows:

Google’s new Web Browser!

Google has released a new open source web browser named, Google Chrome yesterday in more than 100 countries. It can be downloaded from here. Google also released a comic book describing the features of browser. It can be found in here. Google chrome beta is currently available only for windows, and they are working hard to release a Mac version of the browser. Later it will be available for all other platforms. It is very lightweight and it has taken its foundation from Apple’s WebKit and Mozilla’s Firefox, also more over it has a more powerful JavaScript engine, V8, to power the next generation of web applications that aren’t even possible in today’s browsers. In this release it doesn’t have support for Java and Silverlight. Ok lets download and enjoy some Google taste.